Apparently Leftist Lies Aren’t “Lie Lies”

Let’s stipulate, for the sake of argument, that Donald Trump lies.

Okay, what has he lied about, and how does it make America less great? How does Trump’s lies imperil our national defense? How does Trump’s lies matter?

Once that is answered, tell us how Hillary’s lies do not matter, or any other lefty politician’s?

The media simply does not care about what leftists say or do. On the rare occurrence that the media will acknowledge a leftist lie, they will do very little to make that liar pay. There will be a brief tongue-clucking essay, a symbolic comical face-slapping, and then they’ll continue their mission of making a right-winger pay for a lie they never even told. (“I can see Russia from my front porch.” -Sarah Palin.)

When a writer can say that a victim of vehicular homicide would think that a lack of punishment for her drunken paramour’s crime would be “worth it if she could see all the good he had done since letting her die,” we know there is no hope for a level playing field in the media.

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…Clinton perjuring himself and besmirching a court of the United States of America (all over a sleazy affair with a vulnerable young woman) hasn’t diminished his career at all. Indeed, he is very rich these days. Moreover, liberals seem to love the fact that Clinton lied: they revel in his dishonesty, they make excuses for it, and they sneer that he was impeached “just because he got a blowjob.”

In 2012, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claimed Romney hadn’t paid income taxes for ten years. That was a lie. But that didn’t matter. Four years later, Reid was even gleefully unrepentant about having lied, and nobody really cares about it.

When Obamacare began falling apart and people began losing their health insurance plans by the millions, President Obama claimed he had warned the country that certain insurance plans might get cancelled. That was a lie. In fact, he had said precisely the opposite: that Americans could keep the plans they liked.

Well. The New York Times claimed that Obama’s brazen lie was “additional explanation;” Jonathan Capehart at the Washington Post said the president’s lie was not a lie but a “lie,” with scare quotes. Capehart then went on to argue that George W. Bush was the real presidential liar.

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